Campus Currents

Plans are moving forward on a new, state-of-the-art residence hall for Black Hills State University which connects two existing halls and provides for a vibrant community setting for students.

The new hall is estimated to break ground in early summer of 2014 with a completion date of summer 2015. When completed, the residence hall will be the first new hall built in nearly 50 years.

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A hands-on workshop, “Create a Website with WordPress,” will be held Thursday, March 7 at the University Center-Rapid City, room 103. The workshop is divided into two sessions. The morning session will be from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and the afternoon session will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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Black Hills State University music and theatre graduate Tyler Raad will perform a concert Friday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Clare and Josef Meier Recital Hall on the BHSU campus. A reception will follow the performers. Admission is by donation which will benefit scholarships for students of the Johanna Meier Opera Theatre Institute.

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More than 40 former Black Hills State University track and field and cross country runners returned to campus recently to participate in the 21^st annual Stadium Sports Grill BHSU Alumni Mile. The weekend-long event, held in conjunction with the Dave Little Invitational, included a Friday night social at the Stadium Sports Grill in downtown Spearfish, and an after-race luncheon in the BHSU Yellow Jacket Hall of Fame room.

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Black Hills State University will usher in its 130^th anniversary with a Founder’s Day celebration Wednesday, Feb. 27, with a chili cook-off and a trip down memory lane with a style show featuring clothing and accessories from BHSU's past and present.

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The Stewart Bellman Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing at Black Hills State University is accepting submissions for academic essays, papers, and reports from all disciplines.

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Black Hills State University is proud to announce its partnership with the Spearfish Chamber of Commerce to operate the new Black Hills Virtual business Incubation Program, BH VIP, from an office at the Chamber.

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A team of Black Hills State University professors have developed a new multi-tiered model for math instruction that identifies struggling students earlier with an ultimate goal of getting them a college diploma.

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It takes place in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Tokyo, and now an alternative art movement is making its way to South Dakota with the help of Black Hills State University art instructor Desy Schoenewies.

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The Office of Academic Affairs at Black Hills State University has released the dean’s list for the fall 2012 semester.  A total of 737 students maintained a grade point average of 3.5 or above while taking at least 12 credit hours to be named to the list this semester. Students are listed by hometown or current place of residence.

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The School of Business at Black Hills State University is pleased to announce the addition of three new business certificate programs. Certificates will now be available in Management, Entrepreneurial Studies, and Management Information Systems (MIS).

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The South Dakota Center for Enterprise Opportunity (SD CEO), the women’s business center at Black Hills State University, will host the monthly Women in Networking (WIN) lunch at the Spearfish Holiday Inn Swarm Room Tuesday, Feb. 12 from noon to 1 p.m.

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Matt Schofield first met Jimmy Crammer in the late ‘60s during an English class at Black Hills State University. Crammer was a South Dakota farm boy who was drafted, sent to fight in the war in Vietnam, and comes back forever scarred. Crammer is also a fictional character and the subject of Schofield’s two published books.

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Gina Jespersen’s upcoming year is going to be a busy one. Aside from finishing her degree in elementary education, the Black Hills State University student will be traveling around the country promoting the Black Hills Stock Show (BHSS) as the newly crowned rodeo queen.

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Mike Bean has always been a fan of the University of Notre Dame athletics, especially football, so when the Black Hills State University alumnus got an internship in Notre Dame’s sports medicine department, he was fulfilling a dream.

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